The new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus, discovered by a dairy worker on a farm in Texas, is said to be deadly for ...

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

It mostly affects wild waterfowl such as ducks and geese but has the potential to spread to other birds such as poultry and domestic waterfowl. And sometimes, the bird flu results in wide-ranging ...

A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

The 'animal pandemic' that could jump to humans This strain of bird flu has killed tens of millions of birds worldwide since 2020 and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America.

The five pigs and 70 birds on the backyard farming property were euthanized to prevent further spread after the virus was detected on Tuesday, Oct. 29. The first case of bird flu being found in a ...

Since 2022, the virus has wiped out more than 100 million poultry birds in the nation's worst-ever bird flu outbreak. H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first ...

The bird flu was first detected in March at a Texas dairy, though it had been "circulating in poultry and wild birds in the United States since 2022," according to the ag department website.

The swine case originated with wild birds and not from a poultry or dairy farm, a USDA spokesperson said. Wild bird migration has carried bird flu to poultry flocks and cattle herds.

Bird flu was first detected in poultry on the noncommercial farm, the Oregon agriculture department said Friday. State and ...